The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Speaker Carlisle Unable to Visit Au'
gusta-A Negro Who Escaped from
the Chain Gang Three Times Sent
Back Again-Snow in North Georgia
Christmas.
GEORGIA.
The Ohoopee is again loading timber.
Waco has neat new paper called the
World.
Tax Collector Heard, of Dooly county
did not lack more than SEQ collecting all
of the $4,000 taxes due.
Speaker Carlisle writes that he will be
unable to deliver a speech at Augusta
during his coming trip to Georgia.
At Sandersville, Tuesday, the Washington
County Publishing Company elected G..
Henry Mitchell editor and business man
ager of the Middle Georgia Progress for
the ensuing year.
Last Friday evening Seab Adcock, an old
citizen of Walton county, bought gallon
OF whisky and started home through the
fields. He failed to get home and his family
began to look for him. He was found Tues
day sitting by tree, with his jug between
his legs, dead. He had been dead two or
three days when found.
Strangers in Atlanta Tuesday from the
fall of snow on Christmas day in the coun-
ties Of Whitfield, Walker, Catoosa, Dade
and Polk Snow commenced falling at an
early hour Sunday morning, and continued
until 10 o'clock at night, when it COM
menced melting very rapidly.
Fritz Bryan, the 14-year-old son of Mrs.
Mary E. Bryan, the authoress, was so
severely burned about the face and neck
with a hoop of blazing cotton Monday
..ml.k e1..xr g
tertained by the family and friends. The
family residence is in Charleston, a small
village ten miles from Atlanta, on the
Georgia road.
Commissioner Henderson has written to
Commissioner Colnan for white mulberry
seed, which will be sent broadcast in Geor-
gia. During the last ten years the United
States has made rapid progress in the cul-
ture and manufacture of silk. She now
ranks third among the nations in silk cul-
ture. France ranks first, Germany second,
and Great Britain fourth.
james Peacock, a well known citizen of
Atlanta, IS years of age, who has figured as
bailif in Fulton county for many years,
died MondI night from softening of the
brain. Ia early life Mr.. Peacock was a
minister OF the gospel, and figured promi-
nently at camp meetings. His health has
been on the decline for ten years or more,
and his death was not a surprise TO his
friends.
The Graco-Roman wrestling match at
Atlanta Tuesday night between Gree
George and Muhler drew a large crowd.
Muller won the first throw and Greek
George the second. While the third round
was progressing, at IL o'clock. the time
keeper called time and announced that the
contest was a draw 1t was also announced
that the decisive round would take place
Friday night
the remains of Mrs. S. e. Adams. of At
lanta, proprietress of the National Hotel,
who died suddenly on Christmas day, have
been sent to Talladega, her old home, for
lnterment. Mrs. Adams has been resident
of Atlanta for ten years, during the greater
portion of which she kept the Adams House
ON Wall street, opposite the union passenger
depot. She had become well and favorably
known to the travelling public.
Summerville NeUs: ID. Carpenter has a
pair of twin ROSTERS nearly grown which
were Matched from the same egg. One Is a
dominique and the other black Up to this
Time they have never been separated over
twenty-five yards, and each night thew
lovingly roost on the same limb side by
side. They never quarrel or fight and to
such an extent does their love go that one
cannot flap his wings and crow without the
other following suit This is passing
strange, but Mr.. Carpenter vouches for its
truth
Neil Smith (coloredl has just been SEN
fenced in the courts in Augusta to four wears
IN the penitentiary for escapes. He was
sentenced from Bib in 1888 to four wears
for larceny. He escaped, was recaptured
and sentenced for one year for the escape
he escaped again, was caught again and got
another year added. He escaped a third
time, and this time receives four years. He
has now before HIM about six years in the
pen1tentiary, when if he had remained
quietly and worked out his first four years
he would now be free man.
Atlanta poker players are playing in hard
luck of late. They not only have to plav
against the pot, but also against the police
and detective force. A commercial traveller
from the Gate City remarked the other day.
after half score of his fellow drummers
were pulled in that city, and registered
their names at the police station under the
ritle OF gamesters, that the only place he
knew of i'll Georgia where it was not
dangerous to indulge in a poker game was
on the New York steamers after they were
outside of the harbor on the billowy deep.
Seven colored men, employees of the st.
Slmons mills, met with watery grave last
Saturday night in st. Simon's sound They
went to Brunswick late that evening on the
steamer Hessie in hopes of getting back by
some steamer, out nnding no opportunity,
they went to the back landing and got n
small boat and started. Nothing more was
heard of them until the day following,
when seven hats, jug, or bottle of whiS-
ny, and basket was washed ashore on 81
Dimon's Island at the lower mills. Up to
this writing nothing more has been learned.
and neither the boat nor the bodies have
been found. The following are the names
of the unfortunate men: Bill Lewis, Hen
ry Chapel, John Taylor, Jim Mccoy. Sam
Shelly, Charles Williams, the second, and
Jim Joiner.
Sunday morning, in Oglethorpe county.
Webb Norman, worthy and well-to-do
farmer, died near his home, in Simson dis
trict. Mr.. Norman was in the store of Hugo
Phillips, and while there was offered a drink
of whisky by a negro, who offered him his
bottle. 1t being Christmas, and thinking a
drink would not hurt him, he took some
whisky from the bottle, and in less than an
hour afterward was dead One or two doc
tors were called in, but too late. They pro-
nounced the whisky poison, being the cheap
quality On the same morning Clay Smith
took drink from some other whisky offered
by friend, and it almost turned him crazy.
lie ran out in the road, hallooing and tear
ing his clothes, and finally ran against the
fence and was knocked senseless. His friends
came to his rescue, and with difficulty put
him ~ bed.
This is one of the incidents of Christmas
just cropping out: A gentleman went into